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The crypto dons of Beirut

Jacob Russell

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Lebanon

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Rest of World

Published:

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Topics:

Money + Finances, Technology

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It was a warm May evening in Jbeil, a coastal city just north of Beirut, and one of Lebanon’s new cryptocurrency dons was getting his nails done. Mario Awad sprawled...